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March 29, 2010

Snobs Aplenty in the Ivory Tower

Candace de Russy

In an insightful commentary at In Character (subtitled "a journal of everyday virtues"), Naomi Schaefer Riley examines how academe evolved from Socrates's dictum, "All I know is that I know noth......

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March 29, 2010

Home Tutoring: An Emerging Profession

Mitchell Langbert

I was just looking over Kant's On Education.  He died in 1804 when Germany was but on the cusp of industrialization (it considerably lagged Great Britain).  Kant emphasizes home school......

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March 29, 2010

What is a Gentleman?

Ashley Thorne

NAS is working not just to reform the university, but to reform the character of the next generation. We want to see the academy produce gentlemen and gentlewomen scholars.

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March 29, 2010

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March 26, 2010

Cole at Yale: The Final Word

Candace de Russy

University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole has long taken radical,  public positions on the ongoing struggle in the Middle East. As Winfield Myers writes, he has&nbs......

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